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ae cometh. geal aplomb be lord and tenant cases may be made available ou, for the assesorhent of heavy taxes against landiords on WhO have been guilty of profiteering. ‘ welt .The man on the street will say, “Go to it, and ~! fhe ‘harder the better.” "In this case the man on the street would be fully ‘ * When landlords have gone into court and sworn ~ to excessive valuations on property, it would be +3 better than poetic justice for the assessor itt accept the sworn statement of value as the basis for taxation. “yi This sort of taxation would have a double virtue, ft would in a measure reduce taxation on the occa- sional landlords who have not attempted to take advantage of every technicality of the law to gouge ‘the last possible cent from tenants. aft 3 * oo “ A TONIC PHASE. “ HE Evening Post makes a good point with the y ot suggestion “that what thas been going on’ be- ‘e~tween Great Britain and France is essentially a pub- lic ‘debate within the ranks of the Entente” and, as attic, a highly interesting and early exhibition of aun It is easy for the cynical to say that the Allied -balgovernments are professing complete harmony *\ while each is prepared to do exactly as it sees fit. ~*~ This view merely skims the surface. ga TO get down to the deeper truth of the situation + one must admit the underlying sincerity of such e« National feeling as the French Premier has put into = words: eee “There are unavoidable differences, due to the different characteristics of the nations, but their bond of unity was forged amid severe co ye, *ials, and @ union firmly formed in such soty-, Conditions must not be dissolved.” “. The League of Nations will be none the worse «© for a few bracing breezes of discussion in the new westopen air of international interchange, Lxeta . ae NODDING? =? A, S EVIDENCE of “financial strength and pro- ae gressive advance,” the Sun and New York = one Herald cites the increase in collections reported by eee the Malian Treasury. eo» — As the Sun says, “It is interesting to note in = round numbers some of the items in the remarkable . 8" exhibit of increase’: at pb —_———— a ‘Taxes on personal property. - Excess war profits ..... ake om business transactions -Taxes on manufactures....., ; gg Tobacco tax ‘L, (Salt and matches ™ Iteis interesting to note that the largest single cypeincrease comes from the tax on business transac: “fons. Gov. Cox in his acceptance speech indicated ay hhis preference for such a tax. ww -It is likewise interesting that no inctease is re- os pected in tariff and customs dues. Senator Har- _ *ding’s only explicit recommendation for increased “xo tevenue deals with boosting the tariff schedules. “Financial strength and progressive advance” {n aeyi$udh un-Republican financiering! _ wee Certainly the Sun editor must have been nodding when he indorsed such an heretical system of Fun at a 4 TRILBY WAS DIFFERENT. i _..°JF\YU MAURIER'S heroine won an unusual sort Hi) sast of fame, Parisian artists in the story went __“S4nto raptures over the perfection of line, form, color x and texture of Trilby’s feet and ankles. _ . 7°" In New York this week we had a prize competi- |» _ tion, Expert judges chose the three young women a) Who are supposed to have the three mast beautiful | “Sets of feet and ankles in the metropolis, The .. Somely extremities have been photographed for the . delectation of the public. - :\ What if Trilby had been here to compete? “{- Chances are she would not have had a chance, ‘The art and beauty in Trilby's perfect feet ap- ‘9 peared when the foot was bared, as it usually was, ! The modern Trifbys pose for the prize in sheer and ~facy hosiery, in narrow and pointed shoes with high YC" ‘TPrilby's beautiful but ample underpinning would “have been scorned by sophisticated judges of Broad- ‘way twinkle-toes. It is more than possible that an artful publicity ir in the newspaper offices one of with the announcement that one or prize-wigging contestants has been engaged to display those same comely feet and sukles on were writing now he i843 " Mabel’s Stockings "the Svengali of the plece being 4 get-rich-quick operator from Wall Street. ‘ap THE NEW BOXING COMMISSIONERS. 'O CONSTITUTE the Regulatory State Boxing Commission created by the Walker law, Gov. Smith this week appointed Joseph J. Johnson jr., former Fire Commissioner; Walter G. Hooke of Yonkers, who has been Secretary of the Army, Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control, and Edward D. Ditmars of Brooklyn, President of the Crescent Athletic Club. Under the Walker act, these’ three Regulatory Commissioners will become responsible in the high- est degree for boxing standards in this State. They will lay down the rules under which all boxing exhibitions will be permitted, and they will actively supervise the bouts that take place, The three members of the Licensing Commission for which the new Boxing Law provides were also named by the Governor as follows: Lawrence D. McGuire, President of the Real Estate Board of New York City and former Vice President of the New York Athletic Club; Capt. D. Walker Wear, a manufacturer, of Binghamton, and Col. Oharles E. Walsh of Albany, commander of the 10th Regi- ment N. G. N. Y. The names on both these commissions should be | jally noted and remembered by the people of the State, because on these men will devolve the duty of keeping clean and creditable a sport that can only too easily beoome debased. e ‘There is no reason why boxing should not be reinstated in New York on a level high above the scandals that have befouled it in the past and kept on that level year in and year out. The new Boxing Commissioners have the power to keep it there. Let them demonstrate that they ‘have the will. MULATTO MUSIC. A’ ENGLISH music critic finds that “jazz” is, for the most part, fully as bad as it is painted. In the exception he makes a distinction worthy of consideration. . “Jazz” in its original form is an outgrowth of the negro love for syncopation. It is perfectly natural and unaffected. As this critic says, it is not characterized by “vulgarity and bizarréness.” Jazz has in itself an element of comedy, of spontaneous comedy. The players get more fun out of the va- riations introduced than does the auditor. ‘But + this spontaneous nvusical humor loses its charm when the white man steps in with artificial and premeditated syncopations. The fun of the jazz loses its humor when it becomes stereotyped and Is written into the score, Jazz should be natural, or it should not be at all. Jazz by negroes is music. Jazz by white men is an annoyance. The black,and white do not mix well. When white men write or perform black music we get mulatto music, with the sins of both the white and black music, and without the virtues of either. - Both the “Drys” and the “Wets” will con- demn the effort to transport “pure rye whiskey” in cases labeled “embalming fluid.” “Drys” will want to punish the transporta- tion, “Wets” the misrepresentation. It does seem that embalming fluid labels should be saved to cover the transportation of wood aloohol beverages. In that case it would at least be almost truthiul, a THE GERMAN WARSHIPS Lame and limp the warships vide In the Hudson's sluggish tide; Nevermore to take the sea, Rust dnd wreck their fate to pe, Somehow ships have a human side; Honor, courage, and even pride. Sad, indeed, it is to me When they leave the mighty sea. After all, perhaps "twere well If the mine or searching shell Ended carthty days for thee Tn the embrace of the scal —DON C. SEITZ. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE, (From the Rochester Post-Expreas,) When troubles and difficulties descend upon man ‘he is much inclined to think of them as peculiar to himself, his family or his community and to regard the outside world as happily remote from such expe- riences and irritation’. But the reverse is so humor- ously true sometimes that the wails of a city here, or 4m California, or in France, might be cut upon a rubber stamp and be interchanged without losing any detail and any veracity. For example, the fol- Jowing extracts from a letter written trom Paris this ‘summer may be quoted: “On the trains,” remarks the writer, “one frequently finds people paying first-class fares and standing the whole journey. Thousands of people know that owing to the shortage of cars as well as trains, they simply must get aboard. They climb on the top of the cars, hang on the sides (the foot rails run along the whole length of the cars), hold onto to the handles of the doors and cling to one another, presenting to the onlooker the ploture of an animated and vari-colored human ant heap. When one remarks to an official that it is rather a danger- ous procestiing, he simply replies: “What can we do? We haven't the necessary accommodation, and the, people must travel to and from their work.” But the real limking touch with the lands overseas {s found in this naive conclusion: “It is surprising how few accidents happen, and the good humor of the people under all these trying conditions {s worthy of our admiration and emulation.” It {s just as surprising here, is it not? Fema svawt rat) WE YOu READ THis STORY SiR D D, SATURDAY, AUG To the Exlitar of ‘The Drening World: cents, cucumbers at 16, butter at 80 cents, The muskmelons are mostly and his answer was: “What the hell What kind of letter do you find most readablef Isn't it the one that gives ‘you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ezerctse and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. | Foy in Right. I noticed Mr. P. Q. Foy’s article about foreigners in the retail fruit business charging exorbitant prices and aiso a letter signed “A World Reader” jn the Aug. 11 issue. All that they say is true. If you were to send some one along Fulton Street, Brooklyn, say from Sumner Avenue down to Nostrand, but particularly around Sumner Ave- nue, you would see muskmelons at 30 bad. : My wife told the corner fruitstand man that ihe sold her a bad melon, do I know about ansions?” Is it not possible to hale these fel- lows to court? M. T. Ne Sumner Ave., Aug. 12, 1920. Poland and Labor, To the Diitor of The Brening World : ‘The atttitude of the English Labor Party towanl the Lloyd George-Mil- lerand Pollsh policy is the only con- sistent one for labor to take. It is the laboring man who has to do the fighting and bear the brunt of the war. What right have the Allies to interfere with this affair? Does not Poland belong to the League of Nations? Did she not start this war herself without the consent of the Allies? Every nation except France admits that Poland was the aggressor. Hut France, also a member of the League, continually aided and abetted Poland in her imperialistic territory grabbing schemes after having signed the treaty that fixed Poland's limits. For the Alites to assist Poland in a war for solf-aggrandizement !s to violate the sacred principles of the League, I could not picture America, in or out of the League, being a party to any orookedness, and there- by betraying the common people of our jand. Poland in her plight reminds me of the selfish child who cried for a lemon pie, ate it all and then cried with a stomach ache. The working and America should people of have nothing to do with this game of politica, ‘W. ANDERSON. No, 83 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, Aug. 1920, Teo Hungry. To the Bilitot of The Brening World A Constant Reader's comment on Manhattan Beach bathing rates is entirely correct, ‘The middle of July I visited this beach with my wife and three ohil- dren, aged fifteen, ten and five, re spectively, and was told that the ratc was $1.50 per, person, no allowanc« betng made for children, Not caring to be placed in the sucker class, 1 ex- preased my compliments and went to @ neighboring beach, Granting that the music at Man- hattan Beach entitles the manage- ment to @ somewhit higher rate than other beaches without thie luxury are asking, are they not a little too hun- ary io the same rate for VERY HucH ! I Ay READY FoR THE SECOND VOLUME Now children under twelve as for sane? Bronx, August 12, 1920. Wouldn't Hold Over. ‘To the Kaitor of The Brening World: If after an election has taken place but before the President elected has taken office a war should commence, would the old President remain In office until the war was over? If so, when would the term of tihe Presi. dent-elect start and how tong would it be? 3. MB. ’ 8. M. New York, Aug. 12, 1920. England Mannix. the Plitor of The Drening World: Being an American, I cannot re- strain my human impulses, which vehemently protest against England's action in refusing Archbishop Man- nix the right to go to his own country, Since when in the history of hu- man progress has jt become a crime to protest against a regime? England ‘s not persecuting Arch- bishop Mannix, but she is holding him as an example to the rest of the soe oaying: “Rese: yout mouth New York, April 12, 1929 NES A Profitable Spanking. ‘To the Mititor of The Hrening World : May of. Weehawken may like spankings, but here is - one doesn’t, May started someting’ in our house. I am not twenty, but pretty mear, and earn my own living. I work all day, aad of course ike to go out nights. Since somebody suggested spanking the wild girls my dad and my mother have angied a lot about it. Dad says I needed it and ouxht to get dt, but wouldn’t give me one, but tried to put w& off on mother. She said I mi need one, but was too old and too big for her to handie. Well, I arrived home this morning rather late, I will admit, and got away to work without much being said. But to-night dad.brought The Eve- ning World home and read May's let- ter, and dared ma to give me one, Ma said I needed one, and after read. ‘ng May's letter again I said I would try it Once, anyway. So up we go, Mother takes her hairbrush and | drape mvyself across her knecs. I was crazy, not only because I was spanked good and proper, but ma says she found it #0 éasy to handle me that she ls going to &eep it up. I hope it doesn't become a habit. KITE FROM THE CITY. P. &.—Dad just gave-me $5. A spanking at $5 each ien't bad, but, girls, you earn it, Don't let ‘em tell you different. KITTIE. Agrees With Rooney. 1) the Raitor of The Evening Works : I agree with John Jerome Rooney on the League question, He has the right idea, ‘As Admiral Benson said, “Don't let England pull the Wool over your eyes.” A BROOKLYNITE. Brooklyn, Aug. 10, 1949. A Good! I REPRESENT THE PIFFLE PUBLISHING Co. _\THE SECOND UME SEUS F FIVE . SE ORE SENT going after it is in motidn. tinuing motion, force to you. if you can help it. you must begin over. you have made a mistake. while is easy. ° arrive. to think and to work easily. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyrisht, 1020, by John Biske.) WHEN YOU'VE STARTED, KEEP GOING, It takes about three times as mucn coal to move a freight train the first hundred yards as it does to keep it An automobile. is electrically started. put in motion without an expensive waste of power. Overcoming inertia is always more difficult than con- Moving bodies acquire a momentum which is of great assistance in keeping them moving. These are laws of physics. When you start, keep on going. to begin over again, you go back. keep going back you are not likely to get very far, Doa't get into a business that you are not fitted fom Of course if you have started wrong, But you can’t do that more taan once or twice in a lifetime aid make any progress. Often when you find a job is harder tha1 you thought it was going to be, you get discouraged and figure that But all jobs, if they are worth anything, are harder than you thought they were going to be. Keep pegging away at what you are doing. The start was the hardest, although you may not realize‘it now. Once you are on your way you will acquire a mo- mentum that will help you along. i Think about what you are going to do rather than about how much trouble you are going to have to do it. You Will meet with discouragements, and there will be drudgery to be got through. But if you are in earnest, aid mean to arrive, you will The man who gets into a place of importance learns As he gets older he has more leisure, not because he does Jess work but bevause he needs to spend less time doing more work, It may take ‘you many years to get into such a positions, But you can get there if you keep on trying, and if, after you've started, you keep going. It cannot be But they apply with equal Every time you stop And naturally if you Nothing worth > | which was to come. | . 8 @ f Mystery and the Menu Card..- ‘The menu card gets into literatura | | He 1s convincing when he telfs of | the effect on plain American diners of | giving foreign names to domesti¢ ish~ ¢ “If you must hoard your woes and fret About their vast accumulati Let them in some steel vault beget With key-proof lock, and then forget The combination.” A verse for to-day~August Four- teenth—that is right out of John Ken- drick Banga's “The Cheery’ Way,” (Harper's) a book which contains verse for every day, Good sensg;mot~ withstanding the fact that Mr. imng# is widely and favorably known |hs & ‘humorist, And “The Cheery Way" is also by way of being full o¢ Yritty good tabloid eoetry. 7 j ’ j . Whon a King Sits at Your Foet- It ip @ pretty safe wager that the man in the street has never given « | thought to the two-edged royal ampect of the operation at the‘ boottlack's | stand. It is @ thought to whist, in } his clever little book of essays, Tbe , Perfect Gentleman” (Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston) Ralph Bergengren gives | ein happy turn: In @ democracy tt is fitting that | «man should ait on a throne to have ‘his shoes polished, or, to a | brighter, gayer word, shined. » We | are all kings, and this happy gbon- Se eed a da Consolence and Majority Rule...) “If we always did right,” remaris |G. Stanley Hall in his new book, “Mo- rale,” (Appleton) “we should no more know that we had a conscience than | the well man knows he has e stom heart or nerves. “To be conscious of conscience means | that evi has found entrance, an@@hat if we now do right we do so onig'pmta @ majority of our faculties abd not unanimously with them ali.” |! Conscience, thus presented ab the | essence of majority rule among our own inclinations, may appear to many minds |More pleasantly than in the role of « | maker of cowards. So Dr. Hall scores in hts book a philosophic hit above | the immortal Shakespeare. “Morale” pursues to further psy- chélogic. purpose some of the themos bearing on human development whica were merely suggested in the author's | earlier work, {Adolescence.” . 8 _ How Runner Blake Ran at Gibraitar-— Ellery Clark's volume, “Remini«- jcences of an Athlete,” (Houghton- | Mifflin Company) brings back to mind in this year of Olymplo Games’ re- | sumption some cheerful, memories of 1896, the first year of the moderm re- vival of the Olympic competitions. ‘Among the nine young Americans who captured the honors op that oc- casion was Blake, the Mrrathon ‘rua- ner, Mr. Clark recalls that at.Gtb raltar, on the way to the games, (Blak took his customary fivc-mile rampbe: | hind the carriages from which his |lucky companions “did” the astghts, As he passed groups of small saga- muffins he would pause in this*run | ning, pretending to pick up penny ‘and shouting his delight. Thise®éuld of course start the urohins, and #iake, | ursued by the barefoot throng: pre- sented an effect almost equal, in pum- bers at least, to the ral Mardthoa 17 by way of “The Art of Naming Dish- es," (Culinary Publishing Company, New York) as-prepared by L. Séhu- macher, Mt. Schumacher’s book runs: matu- rally ¢o vocabularies in some of its vital pages. He tells us what eat | by various names, and explaing that roast beef still 4s roast beef even Wien | served as “Aloyau roti ala Tussidfine.” es, Thus he writes of sixty-nine guests out of 112 ordering Jellic® chicken by the English namo, while only eleven dared the unknown qua!i« ties of “Chaud-froi de poule.” Therg 1g eloquence of a sort in-his story of how, on one occasion, eixty-three peo- ple asked waiters to explain items om & Unguistically mixed bill of fare, and ‘only in fourteen cases could the ers give the right answer. We gather from Mr. Schumacher’s remarks that the menu card printed in @ foreign language 1s, to the gene~ ral public, the least popular of the season's mystery tales. | Letters of a Canteen Girl--- “Why are the boxers in a com-_ pany always found on the kitchen force?” asked a new comer to the “Y" Cafe at Grendecourt, “That's so they can handle’ the boys when they come back for seconds.” » “‘That’sa Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Coppright, 1990. by The Publishing Co, Press (The New York Evening World.) Sir Thomas Dungan, Governor of New York about 1685, was a Roman Catholic, and it was during his ad- ministration that the first Catholic families settled in New York City. ‘The first Roman Catholic place of worship in New York City was in @ building erected for purposes in Vauxhall Garden on the Hudson, extending from War- ren to Chambers Streets, in No- vember, 1783, In 1823 the New York Gas Com- | Dany was granted exclusive privi- | | | public | lege for thirty years to lay pipes south of Grand. Street, The second Governor of New York, Francis Lovelace, in 1672, established a postal tween New York and Boston, In January the first carrier began his journey, and, as he passed through the Connecticut woods, marked the trees to help him find his way back. Obsequies of Henry Clay were celebrated with the greatest pomp and magnificence in New York City on July 20, 1852 Chatham Square, as well as Pitt, penpetuates the name of America’s most devoted friond, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Yate Univeraity had |te beginning at Saybrook, Conn, in 1700, and was removed to New Haven in 1716. service be- ‘The newcomer, who afterwafl be« came a veteran and who remajhs an anonymity, writes this quostion, and answer in her “Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl” (Henry Nolt & Co,), one of the very latest and most cheer~ ful books of the Great Wer, Thix work runs quite freely to repartee of the refreshment quarters and wot at all to statistics of the men. > To a corporal in the kitchen polish- ing a French horn with the secretary'a pink toothpaste, “It's too bad you can’ take that band of yours up frent,” ob« served a comrade. “What for?” “Cause it would make the boys fect like fighting.” However, there are pathos and part- ings in the canteen girl's book, with evidences of devotion, hard work returns in chivalry, And who de that the home-made wit of the boys played a large part in keeping Ber spirits up to the soldierly stands das